School of Medicine
Seminar Series 2001-02

October 30
Anjana Rao, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Senior Investigator, Center for Blood Research
Harvard Medical School
"Mechanisms of Gene Regulation in T Cells"
Host: David Virshup, Huntsman Cancer Institute

November 6
Henry Krause, Ph.D.
Professor, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research
University of Toronto
"The Role of Cofactors in HOX Protein Specificity: Fushi Tarazu and FTZ-F1"
Host: Carl Thummel, Human Genetics

November 13
Tom Blumenthal, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
"Animal Operons: Processing of C. elegans Polycistronic Pre-mRNA'-s"
Host: Dana Carroll, Biochemistry

January 2 (Wed.)
Costa Georgopoulos, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Biochemistry
University of Geneva, Switzerland
"Genetic and Biochemical Studies of a Protein Folding Machine"
Host: Dana Carroll, Biochemistry

January 8
Raphael Kopan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Washington University
"Insights Arising from the Collision Between the Notch Signaling and the Alzheimer Disease Fields"
Host: Mario Capecchi, Human Genetics

January 15
Gary Schoolnick, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford Medical School
"Microarray Expression Profiling Studies of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Host Cells"
Host: Raymond A. Daynes, Pathology

March 19
Mahendra Rao, Ph.D.
Section Chief--Stem Cell Biology
Laboratory of Neuroscience, National Institute of Aging
"Stem Cells and CNS Development"
Hosts: David Grunwald, Human Genetics and Tom Parks, Neurobiology and Anatomy

March 26
Camilynn Brannan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
University of Florida
"Mouse Models of Prader-Willi Syndrome"
Host: Anthea Letsou, Human Genetics

April 2
Craig B. Thompson, M.D.
Scientific Director
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
"Regulation of Apoptosis"
Host: Raymond Lee, Huntsman Cancer Institute

April 9
Eric Lander, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Genome Research
Whitehead Institute, MIT
"The Human Genome and Beyond"
Host: Mario Capecchi, Human Genetics

April 23
Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.
Group Leader
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
"Decoding the Message: How the Ribosome Recognizes Cognate tRNA"
Host: Dana Carroll, Biochemistry

April 30
Barry S. Coller, M.D.
David Rockefeller Professor of Medicine
Vice President for Medical Affairs
Rockefeller University
"Integrin Receptors in Blood and Vascular Diseases"
Host: Guy Zimmerman, Human Molecular Biology & Genetics

May 7
Andrew P. McMahon, Ph.D.
Frank B. Baird Professor of Science
Harvard University
"Genetic Regulation of Vertebrate Skeletal Development"
Host: Mario Capecchi, Human Genetics

May 14
John F. Fallon, Ph.D.
Professor, Harland Winfield Mossman
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Beyond the ZPA: How is Digital Fate Determined"
Host: Mario Capecchi, Human Genetics